Recent script sales this week
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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Action, Comedy
Leroy Brown: the baddest man in the whole damn town. Badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog.
[Song]
Comments: Based on the hit song by Jim Croce.
The Fury
Supernatural, Thriller
A young man with heightened kinetic powers is abducted by the government in order to take advantage of his special gifts.
[Novel], [Remake]
Comments: Remake of the 1978 Brian DePalma film, which was based on an novel by John Farris. Writers are newcomers who wrote a spec ‘Of Every Wickedness,’ about America’s first known serial killer. The script generated a lot of attention, and helped win them this assignment.
Get Him to the Greek
Comedy
A fresh-out-of-college insurance adjuster is hired to accompany an out-of-control rock star from London to a gig at L.A.’s Greek Theater.
[Script]
Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand
Comments: Nick Stoller will write and direct.
The Heretic
Adventure, Thriller
A fallen priest-turned-hitman is sent by a rogue archbishop to assassinate Martin Luther, only to discover that not everyone is telling the truth.
[Spec]
Man on the Train
Drama
A drifter casing a conservative small town for a bank robbery befriends an elderly professor who seeks to energize his life by becoming his partner in crime.
[Remake]
Untitled by Nicole Holofcener
Comedy, Drama
A woman and her husband live next door to an elderly woman whose New York apartment the couple owns. The couple are essentially waiting for the elderly woman to die so they can reclaim the apartment but run into interference from — and then form a relationship with — the woman’s granddaughters.
[Script]
Stars: Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener
Comments: Nicole Holofcener will write and direct.
Taking Woodstock
Drama
The colorful life of a Greenwich Village-based interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager who heads the Bethel, N.Y., Chamber of Commerce and issues the permit for the legendary 1969 Woodstock concert.
[Book]
Zookeeper
Romantic Comedy
A zoo full of animals break the code of silence to help a down-on-his-luck zookeeper get the woman of his dreams by introducing the secret mating habits of their species. ‘Hitch’ with animals.
[Spec]
Price: $2 million against $3 million
Comments: Walt Becker is attached to direct; Kevin James could star. Disney and DreamWorks also bid on this project.
Down River
Adventure, Thriller
Four twentysomething masters of the corporate world decide to go on an actual adventure trip to the Amazon rather than on a high-class trip where you pretend to rough it. Things go awry when their tour guide is killed and the men have to face not only dangerous wildlife and tribesmen but also one another.
[Pitch]
Price: Seven figures
Pastor Brown
Drama, Indie
A wayward pastor’s daughter returns from a life as an exotic dancer to make amends with her family and teen son and eventually lead her father’s parish, becoming a pastor.
[Script]
Executive Actions
Action, Thriller
[Novel]
Comments: Deal includes rights to a series of political action thrillers, including ‘Executive Actions,’ ‘Executive Treason’, and a third upcoming novel.
Untitled Buddy Comedy by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
Comedy
[Pitch]
Price: $700,000 against $1.5 million
Material Lies
Drama
A struggling actor learns that he has leukemia and arranges a weekend reunion of his former college friends, including his former sweetheart, with whom he hopes to reconcile.
[Script]
Stars: Teri Polo, Dean Cain, Jay Thomas
Winter’s Discontent
Comedy
After 50 years of marriage, a long faithful but sexually frustrated widower moves with his best buddy to a retirement community, where they start living a swinging single life.
[Spec]
Price: Low six figures
Lifeboat 13
Drama, War
True story: four chaplains give up their life jackets and their their lives during the 1943 sinking of the Dorchester after it was torpedoed by a U-boat.
[Script]
Wild Cherry
Comedy
High school decides to lose her virginity to her boyfriend, the football’s team kicker, but when she finds out that the boyfriend’s only interested in her for the sake of the team’s ‘bang book,’ she and her best friends plan their revenge inspired by the Greek play ‘Lysistrata.’
[Script]
Stars: Rob Schneider, Tania Raymonde, Kristin Cavallari, Rumer Willis, Ryan Merriman
Sabbatical
Thriller
In their seventh year of marriage, a couple hits the doldrums decide to take a two-week sabbatical from each other during which time, within a set of rules, they can do whatever they want. When the wife returns to the agreed-upon meeting place two weeks later, though, she discovers that her husband has disappeared.
[Pitch]
Stars: Jennifer Garner
Be With You
Drama, Romance
On her deathbed, a dying young woman tells her husband and young son that she will return to them. A year later, the father and son happen upon a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead woman.
[Remake]
Stars: Jennifer Garner
Comments: Remake of a 2004 Japanese film, based on a novel by Takuji Ichikawa.
2 Responses to “Recent script sales this week”
April 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Thank you for taking the financial hit for all of us & posting this. It would be an immensely helpful resource if you chose to continue, especially for those of us who are struggling, but strapped so tight we can’t afford to subscribe ourselves. In either case, cheers!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Good news Alain - I am going to sign up for the service so that I can keep posting these for everyone! Stay tuned, there will be more to come starting today.
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